Word: floras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flora, Miss...
ROSEMARY CALDWELL Flora, Miss...
Reported TIME'S Correspondent Flora Lewis from Warsaw last week: "At the center of the new movement are Polish intellectuals, either Communists or sympathizers, most of them fairly young. Behind them are amorphous groups of youngsters, university students and veterans of the underground war against the Nazis, whose pent-up resentment needed only a pinhole through which to escape." Last week the pinhole threatened to become a full-sized blowhole as letters poured into newspapers from agonized young Poles describing how they now had "no foundations for believing anything." Typical was a moving letter from an 18-year...
...concept that the family should share the father's business, the Bensons have made the U.S. farm problem their problem. As the result of long discussions at home, the Secretary's wife once got him to publicize milk-dispensing machines to help relieve the dairy-product surplus. Flora Benson attends many of his press conferences, and occasionally finds time from her duties at home (she has no maid, does her own housework) to make a speech. In Toledo last week for a speech at a Republican women's meeting, she said: "I've enjoyed working...
...Manhattan, the battle of Central Park was joined when outraged mothers, with toddlers and perambulated infants in tow, formed a human barricade to stymie a bulldozer sent to flatten the flora on a half-acre dear to the kiddies but now slated to become a parking lot for patrons of the park's fancy-menued Tavern-on-the-Green. The man behind the man who manned the 'dozer: New York City's fireballing, thin-skinned Park Commissioner Robert Moses. He lost no time putting down the citizens' rebellion, had a storm fence thrown up around...